Tar Valon

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The 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay is being run from October 7, 2013, 123 days prior to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, until February 7, 2014, the day of the opening ceremony at Sochi. Unfortunately, the torch bearer has been found dead and we have to solve this mystery! Here are the lists of the suspects, the possible places and weapons of this hideous crime. Be careful, the future of the Olympics is in your hands! The Suspects! Alberto Tomba Ski Champion Brian Boitano Figure Skater Bonnie Blair Speedskater Jayne Torvill Figure Skater Hermann Maier Alpine Ski R…

(Note: I'll be using this article on Wikipedia to get info and break down the focus for each week.) A Brief Summary of Ancient Olympics: ORIGINS: QUESTION for this section: Reread this quote - What do you think is the purpose of modern Olympics as we know it? Does it bring peace and harmony among nations or does it encourage competition and nationalism?

"What would Brian Boitano do If he was here right now, He'd make a plan And he'd follow through, That's what Brian Boitano'd do. When Brian Boitano was in the Olympics, Skating for the gold, He did two salchows and a triple lutz While wearing a blind fold..." ~Stan & Kyle, South Park Elementary~ RTE Theo So, boys and girls, we are RTE & Theo and this year in the spirit of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, we will be posting dire situations, which you have to overcome Brian Boitano style. Use your imagination and wow us with your incredible ideas of heroism. For every situation, we will choose a winner, base…

Welcome to the discussion: Sports that Should be in the Olympics! What's your opinion? What sports do you think should be added and why?

Welcome to the Olympic Trivia Double Decathlon, where you can test your knowledge of all things that are somehow related to the Olympics! This is Round 2, which will last from now until 12:00 midnight Eastern on the evening of Thursday, January 30, or until all the questions have been correctly answered. This is the final round, so get your thinking cap on! All points earned in the first round carry over to this one. Each of our categories features three questions. This round, we're doubling the points! Gold Medal questions are now worth 8 points each, Silver Medal questions are worth 6, and Bronze Medal questions are worth 4, so there's up to 144 points up for grabs …

Hey folks! In this thread we will be discussing memorable Olympic Drama that has occured over the history of the games. I invite you all to discuss any events that you remember that stuck out to you, or perhaps you attended or followed closely on television. I'll start. I'll start with a bit of a darker one but one that has its place in the darker recesses of Olympic History. Via Wikipedia: The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany on 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, who were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September. Shortly …

Hello and Happy New year to all! As you know this year Sochi will host XXII Winter Olympic games! But do you know much about this place? I've made a quiz so you can check it if you like http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/jdhGadJ/Sochi-Quiz I'll be happy to answer any questions you have about it and I'll write an introduction a little bit later

Welcome to the Olympic Trivia Double Decathlon, where you can test your knowledge of all things that are somehow related to the Olympics! This is Round 1, which will last from now until 12:00 midnight Eastern on the evening of Thursday, January 23, or until all the questions have been correctly answered. There will be a second round as well, beginning on Friday, January 24! Each of our categories features three questions. This round, Gold Medal questions are worth 4 points each, Silver Medal questions are worth 3, and Bronze Medal questions are worth 2, so there's up to 90 points up for grabs this round! To play, specify which question or questions you want to…

Welcome to the White/Brown Winter Olympic Carnival Siggy Contest ! Got any ideas for Olympic signatures in your mind ? Enter them in the White/Brown Olympic signature contest! Please PM me your entries with the subject Olympic Sig Contest. The deadline for entries will be January 18th . On January 18,2014 your entries will be put into a thread for voting . Good luck to all who enter.Enjoy the rest of the White/Brown Olympic Carnival!

An announcer speaks quietly in the crowd "People from far and wide have gathered here at the foot of Dragonmount to witness this momentous event. The opening of the first ever Brown & White Winter Games! From Saldea to Tear and the Arad Doman to the Aiel Waste, we've come together as one." Rhea Sedai steps forward, "As representatives of the Brown and White Ajahs, Basel Gill leader of the Browns, and I, Rhea, Sitter to the Whites are here to lead us all in lighting the Flame of Tar Valon and begin these Winter Games!" Basel Gill steps forward, "We welcome our representative with the Flame!" The Crowd cheers as the flame is brought forward... http://www…

Welcome to the Green Ajah's Festival of Lights Snowflake Contest! How it works: you go here to the Snowflake Maker. Each day we will have a "theme". You post your snowflake here, after you make it on the snowflake maker. If you miss a day, you can always post a previous theme snowflake - just make sure it is labeled for each theme. At the end of the Festival, I will choose a winning snowflake for each theme! I will start today with the theme of "Stars". So, good luck, and let the snowflakes fly! And have lots of fun. Here is the snowflake maker link: http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/

Welcome to the BlueCon Song of Ice and Fire personality test! It's quite simple, just click the link and take the test. Post you results so we can see who you are! (I'll do mine later tonight as well.) Here is the link: http://www.okcupid.c...ersonality-test

Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Winter Dessert Contest! Winter is the time for treats, so show us your best recipe! For one week, we'll accept submissions, and then we'll vote for a winner! Do you have the best holiday baking skills? Prove it! Rules: Participants may submit one dessert recipe in this thread (preferably with pictures). Comments are welcomed and appreciated, so feel free to talk away. At the end of the week, a separate thread will be made for voting. The recipe with the most votes, WINS! So, let's get started! Here's my submission: Peanut Butter and Oreo Brownie Cupcakes I found the recipe he…

Season's Greetings, everyone! Santa has been around for a while but what I have not witnessed is a joined Secret Santa event between the membes of the White and the Black Tower, thanks to our Green Ajah, The Amyrlin, and the Leader of the Black Tower SG - TinaHel, we could do that this year. No exploding fireballs or nasty angreals from both sites, please Everyone is invited to join: from the Initiate, to the Asha'man, Algai or Accepted! Post your name and titles in Santa's list below and you will receive a PM with you Santa Buddie when everyone signs up. Everyone will be both a Secret Santa and a Santa Buddie. Get to know your Santa Buddie - from…

Welcome to Wheel of Fortune! Here we will guess words or phrases that are based upon the winter holiday season. The rules are as follows: 1. Jump in anytime - there's no need to sign up! 2. This time around, instead of a fixed score per letter every puzzle along with fixed bonus blanks, I'm going to mix it up a little bit - before each puzzle I'll be throwing a six sided die ... might even have been one of Mat Cauthon's own fave dice back in the day! ... and the value it comes up as will be the value of all correctly guessed letters for that puzzle. (Unlike the game show, you get the score just once for each correct letter, not for every instance of it in the …

Welcome everyone to the Green Ajah Festival of Lights:Rudolph's Gift Heist. Everyone meet Rudolph! Rudolph has run off with some of Santa's gifts sack, and he's ready to share! Everyone will pick a random number and Rudolph will give you a gift you a special present. And lastly Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!!

As we approach the beginning of the new year, let us reflect on 2013. How has 2013 been for you? What have been your ups? Your downs? And, looking forward to 2014 - what are your hopes and plans for the coming year?

Welcome to the Green Ajah's Annual New Years Eve Dance . Come join us as we will be dancing into 2014 , dress in your fancy attire . Share your music with us . Turns on Kate Perry's Firework song Walks to the dance floor and waits .

Welcome the the 2013 BlueCon Video Games Hangman, hosted by me, with the sponsorpship of the "Fantasy Ajah" - The Blue Ajah. Hangman games are simple: you have to guess the word by posting letters. One letter per post, please. If the letter is not in the word, it is counted as Not Correct. 6 letters that are not correct and you get: When you guess a letter, you get 1 point and if you guess the whole word/phrase - 5 points. But be careful! If you say the word and it is not correct, you cannot participate until another round. The words, phrases are related to titles or video games characters. When you have guessed the game, make sure it is with the whole original …

Hey everyone! Welcome to the Blue Con 2013:Desolation of Smaug discussion. So as you all know the 2nd part in the Hobbit trilogy by Peter Jackson-Desolation of Smaug has been released and will be releasing in parts of the world this week. Its a film adaption of the Hobbit book by J.R.R.Tolkein. So who all are going to watch the movie? And for those of you who already saw it, how was it? How did it compare to the first? Did you feel that it didn't stray too far from the original book? One thing's for sure, I can't wait for the third part!

Welcome to BlueCon 2013! For the convention, I, Arya Stark, along with my faithful Nymeria, will be hosting an awesome game of Clue! Point Tally Dany, played by Kaylee: 8 Sansa, played by Thea: 1 Sam, played by Tina: 1 Here is the list of suspects! Eddard Stark: played by Kronos Sansa Stark: Played by Thea Jon Snow: played by Xthrax Hodor: played by Gud Cersei Lannister: played by Blank Tyrion Lannister: played by Davrick Daenerys Targaryen: played by Kaylee Samwell Tarly: played by Tina Varys the Spider: played by Pralaya

Welcome to the Fantasy-themed Owl Post! This game is inspired by the Harry Potter series. In the book, characters could send messages to eachother via the Owl Post; in this game, the basis is the same. Each post acts as a letter, and you may send a letter to/from any character and/or author in the realm of the Fantasy world. Only rules are, - no double posts please - any owl post sent must be addressed to the sender of the previous owl post - keep the letters PG-13. Ex: Post #1 - Dobby, you suck, i totally pwned you at the MTV awards a few years back. So Not Yours, Smeagle & Ghollum Post #2- Dear Mr. Multiple-Personality-Disorder, Dobby would…

Hey Everyone! So this thread will be the place where you can discuss your favorite tv shows and series with each other. This should be a lot of fun, and feel free to talk about any show but try to use spoiler tags in case you might say something that has a spoiler in it (or take another preventative measure). There has been a ton of great tv lately. Dr. Who anniversary episode, a lot of great new and old series, and much more. What are you enjoying or looking forward to the most? Right now I'm really enjoying Breaking Bad. Started to watch it after the series ended given all the positive feedback and everything that I heard about it. I really enjoy it! I'm 7 episo…

The festivities have begun! If you wish to join in the ball send me a PM, there is no limit to how many can play at a time. Once you send me a PM you will be assigned a character from the Fantasy or Sci-Fi realm. You don't need to act COMPLETELY like the character, but you do need to put some effort into it. The object for others will be to guess your character, and you must also try and guess theirs. Guesses will be submitted via PM, any guesses posted in this thread will not count, there is no penalty for incorrect guesses and guesses are awarded on a first come first serve basis according to PM time stamps. You can ask other players questions on thread if you wish…

Welcome to Whose Line is it Anyway? Star Wars Edition, where the game is made up and the points don't matter! Here with us today we have the "Wonderful Warder" Kronos, the "That's so illogical" Rhea, "Perfectly Perky" Aida, and last but not least, Gud "the Great". Let me explain the rules, such as they are: We will have a series of games, sometimes for one contestant, two, three or all four. Each contestant will then have to act (RP) out the scenes in the funniest way possible, and so on. The "winner" at the end of the game will then get to read the closing credits in a style of my choosing. Here we go! The first game will be Weird Newscasters and it …

In anticipation of the relaunch of a new trilogy and in honor of one of the greatest improv rants on tv ever. I present to you the Citizen Filibuster! The Blues' leadership has proposed a resolution that all future posts in the Blues forum must be typed in Yoda speak. If we take the floor in this discussion and refuse to yield our time before they can vote, we can thwart this evil proposal. Inspiration for this filibuster is taken from Patton Oswalt's Parks and Rec improv wherein he details HIS plan for Episode VII of the new Star Wars Trilogy (link below). I will start this thread off with the intro to his speech. http://youtu.be/5BBhNkywMJY Rules: 1-You…

Happy Thanksgiving! I am so excited to play a holiday theme game of Hangman with you! I am awarding points as follows - one point per correct letter, and five points for a correct guess! Points: Cindy: 132 Thea: 62 Kaylee: 31 Gud: 25 Kass: 21 RTE: 12 Tress: 10 Via: 10 Amarande: 10 Rhea: 9 Blank: 4 Basel: 4 Goldeneyes: 4 Nica: 2 Ryrin: 1 Mish: 1 Lea: 1 There will be food, traditions, sayings and entertainment possibilities for each of the hangman games. Good luck and enjoy Here is the first one! _ _ _ _/_ _ _/_ _ _/_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

With the nights drawing and the temperatures dropping, now is the time of year to close the curtains and snuggle under a blanket next to the fire. But what do you do on those long evenings, or those stormy and blustery days when enjoying the Great Outdoors is just not an option? I will be posting some ideas of things to do to keep you entertained and creative!

Welcome All As you may have noticed we here at the Gray Ajah have a love of sharing our ideas about cooking, crafting and just plain love to celebrate all that makes life enjoyable!!! So join us in exploring all the yummy foods and fun traditions that are Thanksgiving. I personally LOVE all the food, decorations and nummies. So please help me fill this thread with pictures of fav foods and stories of traditions, old and new, and any fun/neat crafts you have done or would like to do. one of my favs is sweet potato souffle!! My idea of a yummy craft =)